Poor Level Of A Family Sets New Poverty Yardstick By Shriver
Washington. The report shows a new standard for poverty based on family size and urban rural living. Under the plan a four person family earning under 3310 annually or an individual under 1540 is poor, replacing the old 3000 and 1500 levels. The change follows criticism by the U S Chamber of Commerce who favored a market basket measure and regional cost variations.
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Community Action Agency
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Ford Foundation
Park Street Church Surpasses 4.5 Million Mission Fund
Park Street Church in Boston, with 2,200 members, concluded its 26th annual missionary conference by raising 261,195 in one day toward its global program, bringing total gifts past 4.5 million. Reverend Harold J. Ockenga led the event and called for greater dialogue between Christians and other faiths.
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Park Street Church
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Cresting Mississippi Flood Threatens Quincy and Hannibal
The Mississippi River surge reaches 24.6 feet by Tuesday threatening Quincy Illinois and Hannibal Missouri as new crests and failing dikes endanger about 60 000 acres of Pike Henderson and Hancock counties farmland. Residents evacuate as Hull Illinois backs dikes and Pleasant Hill Illinois fortifies a backwater dike while sightseers hinder relief efforts and a spectator fractures an ankle in Hannibal.
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UPI
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Lawmaker Proposes Early Merger Notification Bill
Representative Emanuel Celler of New York says he will introduce anti trust legislation requiring companies planning mergers to notify the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission 60 days in advance. He chairs the House Judiciary Committee and issued the statement Sunday outlining the plan.
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Large Fire Burns Three by Two Miles on Cape Cod
A fire scorched about three by two miles of Cape Cod woodland over the weekend. Sand Wich and Sagamore Village were briefly threatened while about 100 families evacuated. The Mid Cape highway and Route 6 A were closed as crews battled the blaze which ended late Saturday. Air Force officials suggested machine gun bullets at a National Guard range may have started it, part of a larger New England brush fire flareup with 141 Massachusetts fires reported.
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National Guard
New England
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Pentagon Paid 510000 To Protect Bama Marchers
Washington AP reports the Defense Department spent 510000 to shield the Selma to Montgomery marchers. The tally brings federal troop and guard costs in five civil rights crises since Little Rock 1957 to nearly 13 million, with 1860 Alabama National Guardsmen paid and transported for duty from March 20 to 28.
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Justice Department
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Mass. to launch adult basic education program grant
In Boston the state Department of Education announced a $381,451 grant from the U S Office of Education to start a basic education program for adults with fewer than six years of schooling. The project aims to improve foundational skills and literacy through targeted instruction and community outreach.
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Final NHRR Hearing Before ICC on Commuter Curtailment
Washington report notes New Haven Railroad seeks to limit commuter service with a final Interstate Commerce Commission hearing set for Thursday in New York City. NHRR officials have 9 minutes for closing arguments while New York, Westchester County, and Connecticut gain 30 minutes each. Others testify 15 minutes.
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Marine Officers Die in Derry Plane Crash
Investigators from Quantico Marine Base arrive to study a crash in Derry New Hampshire that killed two Marine officers Captain Norman St Armand 27 of Derry and Captain Reedman Jenson 32 of Chicago both assigned to Quantico. The T28 trainer skimmed a pond then struck a hillside setting a forest fire.
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Fifth Flu Strain Target of Vaccine
Surgeon General Luther L. Terry announced that next winter's influenza vaccine will protect against a fifth strain, an Asian A-2 variety isolated in Formosa last year. The strain closely relates to the one that troubled Americans last season.
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Cushing Says Nun's Place Is Classroom
IPSWICH Mass AP Cardinal Cushing tells about 1000 Sisters of Notre Dame that their place is in the classroom not marching in streets He says they belong teaching youngsters the future and their highway and byway duties He does not reference civil rights demonstrations by the nuns
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